Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start.

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Trinity Church Wall Street (TCWS) has a diverse set of audiences, all with different needs. The church also has popular music programming, making choral music accessible through performances. A user that visits and explores choral music may find, on a second visit, that the site suggests more items related to music.

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Trinity Church Wall Street (TCWS) has a diverse set of audiences, all with different needs. The church also has popular music programming, making choral music accessible through performances. A user that visits and explores choral music may find, on a second visit, that the site suggests more items related to music.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. Oh what a difference a year or so makes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. One of the fascinating things to me is how quickly the CRM space is evolving. Be Helpful.

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APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Rate your CMS! and how they like them. Be Helpful.

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MARCH 17, 2008

I’m on the Evaluating Open Source panel, with Laura Quinn and Catherine Lane, which should be great. I’m in a little bit different of a place this year, than last. Lots of wonderful folks, should be great panels. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

For another client, I helped them vet vendors for their new website, taught them the difference between Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and I helped free them from a vendor who was particularly egregious in their hosting charges, among other things. I have other kinds of projects as well – those that use my talents somewhat differently.

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You may not see a significant difference in the features you’ll use when comparing free and paid options. You may not want to change how you currently manage donors, which means you’d like to invest as little as possible in a different solution or approach to donor management. Is it worth it to spend the money?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. . At the same time, it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to the customer that was going to hire Mpower anyway. 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

And none of these have the same syntax – they are similar, but slightly different. Different enough to drive me crazy. And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

In some ways, it is astonishing how many different donor management packages there are. In that trio was Organizer’s Database, the desktop open source DMS. What can we say about the open source packages? And Kintera Sphere, I think, is going to open a car repair shop. { Be Helpful.

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JULY 10, 2008

My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2007

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. The event itself has been fab. It is actually pretty mind-boggling. Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! The middle way isn’t splitting the difference. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Although I’m sure that we differ in our perspectives on some issues, I very much look forward to working with the rest of the board to keep NTEN the vibrant organization that it has developed into, and to continue to speak to, listen to, and provide for its constituencies. { at 3:50 pm That seem like a great match. Be Helpful.

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JULY 15, 2007

To recap, I took the following steps: Set up my blog on a different domain (in this case, it was zenofnptech.com.) I’ve been rather impressed by how easy Wordpress was to set up and use, and how easy the migration process was. I’d recommend it to anyone. If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. { Be Helpful.

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MAY 15, 2007

I’ve been thinking a lot about different kinds of electronic communications, and what their advantages and disadvantages are. It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals. He provides exactly the kind of advice that will help organizations connect with their donors. Be Helpful.

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OCTOBER 9, 2007

Michael Stein talks about three different kinds of mistakes that one can make in technology consulting, including some errors of process, and the “Hot Dog&# syndrome. A great read for anyone who does development for clients. at 3:04 pm Last minute tidbits » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.20.07 Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. It also means fewer options. On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not. Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. It also means fewer options. On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2007

Open source software, like kittens, take care and management. at 2:26 am Wow – Finally something I can use to illustrate the difference! But what they gained, and it sounds like he’s not willing to give it up – is flexibility. It takes more, because you own your own system. at 10:00 am Free. brilliant.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

I think the time has come to think differently. No matter the seeming outcome, know that you have made a difference in the life of at least one person. In fact, we agreed we are getting toward overload – too much information in too many places. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Maribeth 07.19.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. It’s the same, really, with Drupal, only different. I guess that’s where it gets interesting when you work with a CMS, right?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I came upon these three for different reasons, and although I’m not interested in adopting their primary points of view, there were tidbits that were worth the read (or a skim, in one case) in the end. The third book is in a bit of a different category – not about landing more business, per se, but making more money.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2006

So in comes IPv6, a different kind of addressing protocol. It allowed for 4,294,967,296 addresses. Which, on one hand, seems like a lot, but it’s not, when every cell phone, PC, router, cable set top box and toaster has one. It allows for 5×10 28 addresses, which, for those interested, is 50 octillion. They are worth a read. {

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A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. An online database of third-party social media apps and software, there are thousands of free tools listed in categories ranging from photos and videos to music and games. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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A Free Photos Directory , Free Video Directory and Free Music Directory that offers nonprofits, cause organizations and Web publishers a guide to hundreds of online resources for adding legal, high-quality content to their own Web sites, blogs, podcasts, newsletters, printed materials or online presentations. “I

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) Friendster, Orkut, Hi5 and LinkedIn have very different demographic and geographic reaches. And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I got to be a geek, and feel like I was really making a difference in the workings of organizations, and, hopefully, in people’s lives. Although it certainly could be argued that would have just involved different demons. (In other words, no I don’t exactly know what I am doing next, yet.) And, I think I did that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

So, first off, one of the interesting things was that there was some initial differences of opinion as to how to define open APIs, and what they were used for. The other vendors either supply their paying customers with APIs, or, in the case of civicspace, the APIs are, well, free and open, like everything else about open source.

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APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Or does it mean something completely different like suggesting that people use more than just the nptech tag and to include a one-sentence description? Is it a vocabularly or adding sub-categories? Or adding another tag that indicates audience as Allan Benamer has suggested for his manseo search engine? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. Be Helpful.

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MARCH 12, 2007

It’s chock-full of information about what you need to start, different strategies, and potential pitfalls. There are some great posts for today: First, Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog has a great post with an article from Cheryl Gibson about implementing a CRM system in a nonprofit. Be Helpful.

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